Company Background

Our client provides commercial and consumer banking at over 350 locations.

Challenges and Requirements

Wanting to avoid the risk of lost or stolen customer information and the inevitable negative publicity which follows, the bank proactively sought a method to secure their backup tape process. Every night, sensitive customer data is sent from the bank’s i5/OS midrange system, and saved to an unencrypted tape backup at an offsite disaster recovery location.

The bank wanted to ensure that if a tape was lost or stolen during transit, the data would be completely secured and virtually useless to anyone who intercepted it. In addition to basic encryption requirements, being able to move information directly to tape in one step to stay within current processing windows was a top priority.

Competitive Landscape

While our client investigated Patrick Townsend as an option, the flexibility of SecureZIP combined with the security vision and strategy PKWARE offered, made our solution the easy choice.

The Solution - SecureZIP

In addition to using SecureZIP for encrypted tape backup, the bank saw the long-term value in securely exchanging sensitive data with business partners. The bank’s mortgage division exchanges information from their i5/OS with their largest business partner. Because their partner is also a SecureZIP user, the companies began securely exchanging data as soon as the bank completed implementation, making them compliant with their partner’s encryption requirements.

Most importantly, SecureZIP 1Step2Tape functionality enabled the bank to transfer, encrypt, and compress data directly to tape in one step, preserving significant time and resources without dramatically altering their existing processes.

Company Background

Our client is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, providing individual consumers, small/mid-market businesses, and large corporations a full range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company serves more than 54 million consumers and small businesses across the globe.

Challenges and Requirements

In order to be in compliance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) data encryption requirements, the company needed the ability to centrally manage user rights for encrypting data. Additionally, the solution had to allow them to limit employee encryption capabilities based on job function. The company also wanted a compression solution that could be centralized and was easy to manage and maintain.

Competitive Landscape

The company was using WinZip® for data compression on over 20,000 desktops throughout their organization. In 2006, WinZip engaged the company in maintenance renegotiations, wanting to tie maintenance renewal pricing to the original purchase price, timeframe, and quantities as opposed to starting with a general Enterprise agreement. This turned out to be fairly expensive and extremely complex for the company to manage, as they had purchased different licenses and quantities at various times over several years.

Faced with this kind of complexity, WinZip’s lack of key functionality, and the huge amount of desktops needing compression, the company decided to seek out a solution that would better serve their requirements.

The Solution - PKZIP

The company chose PKZIP because they felt it was easy to deploy, manage, and use cost effectively. PKZIP’s policy manager capabilities enable administrators to define how their end-users encrypt information, allowing them to turn off the encryption capability for those employees who do not need to use it.

The company also realized the value of the migration path from PKZIP to SecureZIP. They recognized that when they needed to improve their desktop security, they could upgrade the appropriate users to the more advanced security capabilities of SecureZIP without disrupting their current processes.

Another key benefit of choosing PKZIP was the ability to eventually standardize compression and security on all computing platforms. This will give the company fewer vendors to work with, contracts to manage, and systems to learn, reducing their overall cost of doing business. The company is well on their way to achieving this goal--they already use SecureZIP on their mainframes and are currently identifying a migration plan to implement SecureZIP on their desktops.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

A project was initiated in 2005 to simplify the infrastructure and reduce costs within the cheque clearing process, replacing an existing application and infrastructure. The resulting application now manages all the electronic clearing data related to paper cheques and credits. The information flows amongst the member banks during an end-of-day processing window resulting in a financial settlement to each bank the following morning.

Our client needed a solution that offered predictable costs throughout the seven-year anticipated lifespan of the application. The desired solution consisted of four components: a private network provider, a certificate authority, software to enable secure transfer, and software that could provide persistent authentication and digital encryption capabilities.

The technical committee overseeing the project evaluated 20 companies that offered mainly “hub and spoke” solutions that imposed the same costs and complexity of the current application. PKWARE was the only company to advise the project team that they could continue to use their existing infrastructure for the first three elements and gain the benefits of direct member-to-member data exchange if they implemented data security using SecureZIP.

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP was able to efficiently manage the disparate computing environments used by member banks (mainframes, as well as Windows and UNIX servers) and helped the division overcome future cost concerns by providing an option that allowed the member banks to change their computing environments without impacting the overall cost of the solution.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

As soon as the company purchased SecureZIP, they quickly realized the solution could work for additional security initiatives throughout the organization. They engaged PKWARE for assistance in achieving strong enterprise security across all major computing platforms.

The company wanted to use PKI to facilitate secure email communication both internally and externally with business partners. SecureZIP was the only solution that could provide the level of functionality, customization, and ease of use required. The company also incorporated the RSA Keon Certificate Authority product as well as the PKWARE ZIP reader to round out the solution.

SecureZIP provides seamless integration with the centralized directories containing digital certificates issued by RSA. This supported the requirement for processing secure transactions without slowing the delivery of reports to their partners. PKWARE’s free ZIP reader extends the benefits of SecureZIP to the company’s large network of partners without requiring them to purchase additional software. As a result, our client is able to securely communicate with, and send information to, its partners, regardless of the their computing environment or security infrastructure.

The company also needed to enable the secure exchange of confidential documents via email. Seamless integration with Outlook was a necessity, in order for employees to easily use public key encryption through their email client. Once again, SecureZIP proved to be the best solution, providing the simple integration and ease of use they were looking for.
Our client deployed SecureZIP on their z/OS mainframes, UNIX Server, and on 1,700 desktops throughout the organization. They now have a consistent, corporate-wide, secure means of transferring sensitive information both internally and with over 700,000 business partners daily.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

As the company began investigating security options, they were aware of the PKWARE family of data-centric security solutions. The company reached out to PKWARE for assistance on this project.

The company’s internal compliance mandates required 96-bit encryption, but after consulting with PKWARE, they realized that in order to truly mitigate risk and ensure the security of confidential customer data, they would need to implement a solution that provided strong 256-bit encryption at a data level. The need for a strong data-centric encryption solution combined with the significant time and resource savings resulting from compressing files before encryption, caused the company to choose SecureZIP.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP Enterprise Edition

Several vendors responded to the RFP, including WinZip. The bank chose PKZIP Enterprise Edition from PKWARE because it exceeded their requirements, providing a better enterprise solution at a lower price. In addition, PKZIP Enterprise Edition met the bank’s current needs for encryption management with Policy Manager, which allows the ability to control which employees may encrypt data.

Most importantly, PKZIP offers a simple upgrade path to enterprise data security. The bank was beginning to recognize the importance of data security and liked having the option to upgrade to SecureZIP, which would provide them with more advanced security capabilities without disrupting current operating processes.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP was a natural choice for the university. They had a tight timeline, wanting to implement the new software by the beginning of the upcoming semester. SecureZIP could be implemented within days rather than several weeks or months with other providers.

In addition, the university wanted an easy way for incoming students, bringing their own PCs and laptops, to gain access to SecureZIP. The university was impressed with the exceptional customer support PKWARE offered. Working together with the university, PKWARE Sales and IT Services were able to develop a solution that was both cost-effective and worked within the required timeframe. Faculty immediately received copies of the SecureZIP software. A secure portal was also created, which will be maintained by university IT services—this will allow downloads of SecureZIP to be distributed to students on an as-needed basis.

Finally, the university was impressed with SecureZIP’s ability to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook® to secure email exchanges, allowing for secure data exchange throughout the university when needed.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - PartnerLink

PartnerLink provided the bank with a framework for exchanging data securely with partners. In addition to efficient implementation, the bank was influenced to select PartnerLink because of its acceptance from other business partners. The bank’s largest business partner was already using SecureZIP, allowing the companies to begin securely exchanging information immediately. In the future, the bank can easily extend PartnerLink to enable the secure exchange of sensitive data with other business partners, at no cost to those partners.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - PartnerLink

With SecureZIP, the company’s client banks, many of whom do not have their own programmers and system analysts, can select encryption options from the HORIZON systems menu. It works like any other end-of-day function, allowing them to merge the options into automated processes for end-of-day backups on their i5/OS systems. The company now has multiple instances of PKWARE products working within their operating environment, including PKZIP®, SecureZIP, and PartnerLink.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - PartnerLink

The provider concluded that the SecureZIP product family was the best solution to address their data security requirements. They deployed SecureZIP/PartnerLink on their mainframe to facilitate secure information exchange with their partners and they also deployed SecureZIP for server to the main application gateway FTP server. SecureZIP for server will allow the provider to encrypt and compress data that is in transit and at rest throughout their organization.

PartnerLink for z/OS will secure the data backbone of the company. By encrypting data at its source in the mainframe, a number of benefits can be derived including secure data transmission and secure data storage/tape processing. PartnerLink will allow the provider to seamlessly exchange information securely with their partners. In addition, the software is free to partners, easy to setup and deploy.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP not only enables cross platform interoperability, but is also easy to use and offers command line functionality for use with the company’s Linux servers. In addition, the company’s largest business partner, a SecureZIP user, highly recommended the product. SecureZIP met all of the company’s initial requirements and made exchanging information with their largest business partner even easier.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

When the company first contacted PKWARE, they inquired about PKZIP. After further internal discussions, they came to realize the importance of adding security to their processes to ensure the sensitive information being transferred remained protected. While they considered implementing a secure pipe infrastructure, they chose SecureZIP because it could quickly and easily provide both the compression and security the company needed without disrupting their existing process or requiring additional infrastructure investments.

Since SecureZIP is built on the ZIP file format, the de-facto standard in compression, the solution is completely interoperable and can be easily transported. In addition, PKWARE could provide LPAR licensing. The company’s world-wide technology group moved forward with SecureZIP as it met and exceeded all of their requirements and expectations.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - PartnerLink

PartnerLink proved to be easy to use, cost effective, and provided cross-platform interoperability, which meant regardless of what platform the company’s partners were running, PartnerLink would work. Additionally, the company knew that deploying PartnerLink would be easy due to the excellent customer support they had received during their initial search for a security solution. The company also liked the long-term value PartnerLink provided, such as its ability to secure FTP in the future.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

Although the company considered PGP®, they chose SecureZIP because it met all of their requirements and provided a more robust solution. SecureZIP was also simple to use and offered policy manager for their desktops. The company recognized SecureZIP for desktop would help them enforce their new encryption policy and limit employee resistance to the solution.

SecureZIP was deployed in less than a week and is now being used on Windows server and desktop environments. SecureZIP’s seamless integration with a PKI environment was also an added benefit because the company wanted to use their Windows servers to produce X.509 digital certificates and an active directory to centrally store the certificates so they could be easily accessed by users via Outlook.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PartnerLink

The company was looking for a cost-effective way to securely exchange sensitive data with their partners, a method that would expand with their business over time. PartnerLink was a natural choice based on its ability to seamlessly integrate with existing applications, allowing daily operations with partners to continue without interruption.

PartnerLink allows the company to distribute an unlimited number of SecureZIP Partner licenses, at no cost to partners. And, they are able to extend their security policies, regardless of the number of endpoints or computer environments involved in the exchange.

In the end, the company eliminated the exposure risk of confidential financial and personal information of a large number of influential customers and partners. Through the deployment of this data-centric solution, the company was also able to secure this information in a cost-effective manner with minimal technical integration efforts.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The division chose SecureZIP to meet their security requirements and was deployed throughout the organization in less than a week. SecureZIP helped the division gain regulatory compliance, along with the added ROI benefits of reducing file size through compression—even after information was strongly encrypted.

To solve their need for increased security among partners, the division is leveraging the free ZIP Reader by PKWARE to enable secure communication. The reader enables partners to decrypt files, regardless of their IT infrastructures. Using the free ZIP Reader, customers don’t have to purchase a security product in order to open secure files.

Using SecureZIP, the division is now able to ensure that files transferred between employees within the organization, and with external partners and other third parties, are secure. PKWARE enabled the division to quickly achieve enterprise-class security through data-centric security.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP / PartnerLink

PartnerLink clearly provided the lowest risk, highest performance, and the easiest integration and support options for the company’s existing infrastructure. It was offered at no cost to their business partners which quickly resulted in partner acceptance, easing the adoption process.

The company had been using PKWARE’s cross-platform solutions for years to streamline data storage and transfer, giving them additional confidence in the PartnerLink solution. They now use PartnerLink with over 200 endpoints on a variety of computing platforms including mainframes and UNIX servers.

The company is able to efficiently protect their data with strong encryption, making it virtually impossible for anyone except authorized parties to access files whether the data is at rest or being exchanged with partners.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP / PartnerLink

After a rigorous evaluation of several security products, the bank chose to implement the data-centric technology of SecureZIP on their z/OS Mainframe. SecureZIP was the natural choice for the bank as it is completely scalable and interoperable. It is also easy to deploy, support, and maintain and did not pose a risk to operational efficiencies.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition

The company purchased SecureZIP Enterprise Edition for i5/OS, Windows desktop, as well as for Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers. SecureZIP provided a single solution that met all of the requirements listed above. Information placed on all forms of removable media is protected, satisfying a corporate-wide security initiative. Using the policy manager function of SecureZIP allowed IT administrators to centrally configure and control which employees were and were not able to encrypt information.

In addition, because the company uses passphrases to encrypt sensitive data, the contingency key functionality of SecureZIP proved to be an invaluable tool. It ensured that data could be accessed at any time, even if a passphrase was lost or stolen, a critical factor when considering SEC regulations. While using contingency key allowed data to be accessed at any time, the company also wanted to increase the complexity of the passphrases they were using for encryption. SecureZIP offers passphrase hardening, which allowed IT administrators to set regulations on factors that increased passphrase strength, such as length of the passphrase and special character requirements.

Finally, our client was pleased to discover that SecureZIP provided them with one solution that was compatible across all computing platforms. The company was in the process of executing an organization- wide desktop refresh, looking for a single solution that would meet their needs, including Vista compatibility, on over 380,000 desktops. SecureZIP provided a single solution, providing both encryption and compression needs, allowing the company to replace WinZip and others and use one universal product throughout the organization.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP / PartnerLink

SecureZIP/PartnerLink was deployed at three data centers on multiple mainframes and on multiple open systems environments (UNIX®, O/S®, and Windows). It provided the lowest risk, highest performance, and the easiest integration and support options for the agency’s existing infrastructure, allowing daily operations with partners to continue without interruption.

PartnerLink allows the agency to distribute an unlimited number of SecureZIP Partner licenses, at no cost to their partners. Being a “no cost” solution furthered partner acceptance and eased the adoption process. The agency can now effectively protect the data at the file level, making it impossible for anyone except authorized personnel to access, whether the data is at rest or in transit. And, they are able to extend their security policies, regardless of the number of endpoints or computer environments involved in the exchange.

In addition to meeting the agency’s critical need of securely exchanging data with partners, SecureZIP also met each of their other requirements. Because SecureZIP is transport independent, it is capable of encrypting data onto mainframe tapes as well as other forms of data movement (i.e. CD, DVD). SecureZIP will create the encrypted .zip archives that then can be transferred to the media of choice via the standard method of writing.

The agency was looking for a solution that would utilize the mainframe encryption coprocessor as well as support the AES encryption standard. SecureZIP provides a cross-platform security solution that offers encryption, digital signing, and authentication, both outside and within the IBM® hardware cryptographic environments. It also supports the AES encryption standard.

While SecureZIP allows for encryption of data exchanged with partners, it also provides for the use of an unlimited number of contingency keys which can be added to any encrypted .zip file created on any platform. These contingency keys provide access to the encrypted archives should the primary key or passphrase be lost or compromised. And, SecureZIP supports the use of PKI certificates that comply with the X.509 certificate standard; and, passwords or passphrases can be added in conjunction with digital certificates.

SecureZIP/PartnerLink provided the Agency with a solution that met all of their requirements and eliminated the exposure risk of exchanging sensitive personal information with partners. They are extremely pleased that not only are they exchanging information securely with current partners, but PartnerLink allows them to extend the same solution to new partners as they are added.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The organization was looking for a solution that was easy and quick to implement and provided the best value for their requirements. They originally went to IBM® and Computer Associates for direction. The solutions they recommended were too expensive, complex, and would require too much time to test, implement, and deploy. As the organization continued to look for an encryption solution, they reached out to Gartner analysts for recommendations. Gartner directed them to SecureZIP which would allow the organization to meet their security requirements and expedite their processes. The third party company that exchanges information with the organization was already using PKZIP on their server, which allowed for use of SecureZIP with passphrase encryption.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The agency was already using WinZip®, but could not consider using it to meet their security requirements. WinZip does not have any administrative capabilities, which was extremely important to the agency.

Government agencies are required to evaluate a minimum of 3 alternative solutions. Therefore, the agency also reviewed PGP®, Sigaba®, File Assurity®, and Tumbleweed®. SecureZIP was chosen because it fulfilled both the agency’s compression and encryption requirements, and also because SecureZIP was the only product that could assist with FIPS 140-2 compliance.

The Solution - SecureZIP

Using SecureZIP’s policy manager, system administrators can define how end-users apply encryption, allowing the agency to maintain control over its employees. To help meet the stringent security standards imposed on governmental agencies, PKWARE developed a special version of SecureZIP for the agency, which incorporates a FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption engine from RSA® Security.

SecureZIP also enables the use of Verisign certificates, another important requirement. The agency deployed SecureZIP on 1,800 desktops throughout the organization, including stand-alone regional locations, in one month.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Law Enforcement Agency was using WinZip® for desktop compression, but recognized that WinZip was not a viable option for data security because it does not offer strong encryption or administrative policy support for contingency keys. Since most agents were using removable media to store sensitive information, they also looked at PointSec media encryption for mobile devices, but found it extremely expensive to deploy.

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP was chosen as the best solution. SecureZIP offers strong data encryption that is interoperable across all major computing platforms and security infrastructures. In addition, it is also on the GSA schedule, which allowed the Law Enforcement Agency to expedite their purchasing process and begin securing data in the field almost immediately.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The agency researched several security options, but in the end, they felt PKWARE offered the strongest solution. SecureZIP could be deployed easily, fit seamlessly into existing processes, and it met the AES 256-bit encryption requirement.

The agency purchased SecureZIP for z/OS in order to encrypt data before being transferred to tape. They were able to apply the solution with minimal disruption to their current processes and ensure the highest level of security for customer private data, while still fulfilling OMB Mandate 06-16 requirements.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The data center researched several security options and realized SecureZIP was the best fit for their environment. SecureZIP’s ability to provide data security at rest and in transit, as well as interoperability across all major computing platforms were key factors in the data center’s decision.

The data center was able to meet all of their goals while increasing processing efficiencies. And, because ZIP technology continues to be a recognized brand in the marketplace, they knew they were using a stable, reliable, and proven application.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

Other ministries within the Canadian Government were using PKWARE products and SecureZIP came highly recommended to our client. After an initial testing period, they were impressed with the functionality and the ease of use the product provided for their employees. SecureZIP also fit well within their current operating environment and did not require any large changes in order to implement.

The relationship that other ministries had established with PKWARE further eased the SecureZIP adoption process by allowing for ease with contracts and licensing. In addition, SecureZIP’s cross-platform compatibility allowed our client to securely exchange data with other ministries regardless of their operating platforms or other types of software being used.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

Strong encryption for secure email exchange. SecureZIP offered the offices strong data file encryption that met their initial goal of a security solution that is compatible with their Lotus Notes email application. The offices can now encrypt and securely exchange information with all external endpoints.

Access data for audit/recovery purposes. Contingency key functionality ensures that data can be accessed at any time, even if a passphrase used for encryption is lost or stolen. The offices can recover any data encrypted using SecureZIP, which is especially important in the instance of an agency audit.

Centrally control encryption capabilities. Policy manager, another capability of SecureZIP, grants the offices the ability to set security protocols so they automatically become part of the workflow. In some cases, users are unaware that files are being secured because SecureZIP works “in the background,” encrypting and decrypting files without requiring any user interaction. Using policy manager, administrators can centrally control encryption standards, configuring and securing protocols. Every time an employee or affiliate creates a SecureZIP file, the user is locked into encrypting the file according to the agency’s settings.

Fast and easy deployment. SecureZIP also provides a solution that is easy to use and deploy within the current work environment. Because both SecureZIP and WinZip are based on the .ZIP standard invented by PKWARE, they are virtually identical in their use, so the transition was quick and easy. Realizing that WinZip could not remain as the standard for compression, SecureZIP now serves the dual purpose of encryption and compression.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP Enterprise Edition

When the organization contacated PKWARE, they were faced with needing to quickly implement a solution that would easily fit within their existing infrastructure, while meeting their data processing needs. Other areas within the organization were already using PKZIP for data compression, so it made sense to continue to expand the use of a single product throughout the organization.

Using PKZIP, files can be zipped for transfer through the applications, and remain in their zipped format as they go through the inspection process before making their way to proxy server locations. Inspected, zipped files are forwarded from the proxy servers where the data can then be unzipped and processed. By using an automated process, the organization is now saving considerable overhead in network bandwidth and is also reducing the man-hours required to transmit the files.

After data is processed, it can be sent easily to a Military Data Repository (MDR). Using the defacto .zip standard for compression ensures that the data can be seamlessly transferred across multiple computing platforms within the organization.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

In order to meet these challenges, the agency considered two potential solutions: WinZip® and SecureZIP. WinZip was disqualified because they were unable to support the use of digital certificates, a key requirement. After a thorough evaluation of SecureZIP, the agency selected SecureZIP Enterprise Edition.

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition

The agency chose SecureZIP Enterprise Edition because of its ability to enable certificate-based encryption. Due to SecureZIP’s ease of use and the technical support provided by PKWARE, no user training was required. The agency was able to deploy SecureZIP within hours, providing minimal distraction to daily operations.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PartnerLink

PartnerLink provided the lowest risk, highest performance, and the easiest integration and support options for the agency’s existing infrastructure. It also met the Government’s AES 256- bit encryption requirement and seamlessly integrated into existing processes with only minor programming modifications.

Being a “no cost” solution to their trading agencies furthered partner acceptance and eased the adoption process. The agency can now effectively protect the data at the file level, making it virtually impossible for anyone except authorized personnel to access, whether the data is at rest or being exchanged with partners.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP was chosen because it offered a more comprehensive product with more functionality, flexibility, and configuration options. In addition, several agency employees had used PKZIP® at previous jobs and liked the concept of using a familiar tool. The agency was able to deploy SecureZIP in a couple weeks. Not only did SecureZIP meet the agency’s need for backup tape encryption, they were also able to reduce the overall time required for the backup process by 10%, saving both time and resources.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The agency researched nuBridges as another possible security solution. However, nuBridges, a point-to-point solution provider required that each end-point be licensed individually. While nuBridges would solve infrastructure issues, they would be costly to implement and did not offer additional features, such as the scalability that was critical to the agency.

The Solution - PartnerLink

PartnerLink was a natural choice for the agency. It will be deployed on i5/OS midrange system and Linux server, providing the agency with the lowest risk, highest performance, and the easiest integration and support options for their existing and new infrastructure.

The “hub and spoke” design of PartnerLink allowed information to be distributed from the central location, or “hub,” directly to the various end-points. Rather than transport security models, where only the transmission layer is secure, PartnerLink allows the data to be secure both in transit and at rest.

PartnerLink allowed the agency to purchase a single solution that eliminated the high costs they were currently experiencing with the SNA Network. PartnerLink also allows the agency to distribute an unlimited number of SecureZIP Partner licenses, at no cost to their partners, furthering its cost-effectiveness.

The agency was able to deploy PartnerLink within a couple of weeks, eliminating their high monthly costs while providing a security solution that ensured easy, efficient, and secure exchange of data with multiple end-points.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The organization wanted to ensure that if their information was intercepted in transmission, it could not be accessed. Simultaneously, due to the size of the files being transmitted, they needed a way to compress them. To address this issue, they explored several data encryption options, including PGP® and SecureZIP. The organization had to make sure the solution would work in its heterogeneous computing environment. So, rather than having to find an encryption utility for each individual platform, they wanted one product that could handle all of their compression and encryption needs from a centralized IBM® z/OS server.

The Solution - SecureZIP

The organization selected SecureZIP for z/OS to enable strong encryption. This allowed them to FTP information to their partners directly from the data center, saving time and money. SecureZIP provided straight-forward implementation and its interoperability meant it could be implemnted on platforms throughout the organization. Now, the organization has a centralized tool that allows users of other servers to FTP their files to their z/OS mainframe and have them compressed, encrypted, and transmitted.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

Utilizing a combination of SecureZIP for Windows desktop and UNIX, the company was able to solve each of their data security issues easily and in a cost-effective manner. SecureZIP for Windows desktop enables them to encrypt sensitive data when it is stored on laptops rather than encrypting the entire hard drive. SecureZIP’s data-centric technology protects the data itself, so even if the laptop is lost of stolen, the data is protected.

SecureZIP also enables the company to meet Japanese government’s data security requirements and EU’s safe harbor laws. Although Japan had originally standardized on WinZip®, they chose SecureZIP as an alternative because it enables passphrase-based encryption for email attachments. To comply with EU’s safe harbor laws, the company leverages SecureZIP for Windows desktop combined with SecureZIP for UNIX. They are able to encrypt all of the information they are sending to their European locations utilizing existing data transfer and processing methods.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP Enterprise Edition

PKZIP Enterprise Edition provided the company with enhanced file support--the capacity to handle much larger file sizes while decreasing transmission times significantly. “With PKZIP Enterprise Edition, we are now able to compress file batches to half of their original size, which is much more manageable for our ETL server. We are also experiencing wall-clock savings as a result of the increased compression,” said an Application Developer for the company.

The company is also pleased with PKZIP’s interoperability across all major computing platforms, ensuring that data can be easily transmitted from the mainframe to their UNIX servers.

In addition, the company was extremely satisfied with the customer and technical support they received from PKWARE. “They were very responsive and answered all of my questions during the deployment process,” said the Application Developer. Overall, the upgrade was fast and easy, deploying within a matter of days and provided the solution that fit their immediate need.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

A current WinZip® user, the organization soon realized the benefits that SecureZIP could offer over their current utility. SecureZIP offered both the compression capabilities and AES encryption WinZip was currently providing; however, unlike WinZip, SecureZIP also was able to provide:

• User Policy Management - the ability to push out policies enforcing or restricting the use of compression, encryption, passwords, certificates, and digital signing.
• Password Hardening - the ability to establish rules regarding the minimum and maximum length of passwords as well as the strength of the password.
• Contingency Key - the ability to recover encrypted data for audit or recovery purposes.
• Cross-Platform Interoperability - SecureZIP is interoperable across all major computing platforms, including desktop, server, midrange, and mainframe environments.

The Solution - PKZIP Enterprise Edition

The organization was introduced to SecureZIP Enterprise Edition. SecureZIP integrates with Microsoft Office, providing a solution that allowed for secure data storage with the click of a button. Since ease of use was a requirement, this provided an easy way for all employees, internally and externally, to secure information.

SecureZIP’s integration with Microsoft Outlook® provides the option for secure information exchange via email. With SecureZIP, information can also be sent securely via Outlook directly from Office applications, making the secure exchange of information even easier.

The contingency key functionality of SecureZIP allowed the organization to access encrypted data for audit or recovery purposes, a factor that became a necessity very early in the decision-making process. In addition, passphrase encryption allowed them to transfer data securely via e-mail, FTP, CD, and other forms of portable media. Data is protected, even if intercepted in transit, protecting the organization from a data loss similar to that of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

SecureZIP met and exceeded the organization’s initial goals, providing strong encryption for data transfer and storage, an easy-to-use solution for all employees, as well as rapid deployment and adoptability.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP

The company chose PKZIP due to its low cost, flexibility, and simplicity of the solution. Because PKZIP automatically integrates with FTP, the company was able to eliminate the need to integrate compression into a multi-step process. PKZIP is also compatible across all major computing platforms, which ensured it could be used with other machines that were receiving data after it passed through the FTP server. The company was able to deploy the solution quickly and reduced administrative costs. PKZIP provided the effective and efficient solution they were seeking.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The company initially looked to their core system software provider for the security they required, but they were unable to offer the required encryption capabilities. They then consulted with Gartner analysts who suggested SecureZIP. Patrick Townsend was the other option considered. After evaluating both solutions, the company selected SecureZIP because it provided more features and a higher level of functionality, including the ability to compress files.

The Solution - SecureZIP

With SecureZIP, the company can now encrypt the sensitive PDF files generated on their i5/OS systems. These secured files can then be saved to CD, DVD, and/or backup tapes for long-term storage. SecureZIP also enables the ability to send the information securely via email attachments from their i5/OS machines to other parts of the company, including legal firms outside of their corporate network.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The company initially looked to their core system software provider for the security they required, but they were unable to offer the required encryption capabilities. They then consulted with Gartner analysts who suggested SecureZIP. Patrick Townsend was the other option considered. After evaluating both solutions, the company selected SecureZIP because it provided more features and a higher level of functionality, including the ability to compress files.

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP met the company’s requirements by providing them an interoperable, cost- effective solution. With SecureZIP, data is encrypted on their server, ensuring the information is protected throughout the entire transfer process. The recipient easily unzips and decrypts the data on their desktops using PKWARE’s free ZIP Reader.

When the company purchased SecureZIP, they had one server running multiple environments. Two years later, they began migrating the server environments to multiple physical servers. They needed to mirror the SecureZIP solution in their development, pre-production, and production environments, expanding the solution even further. This proved to be a simple implementation due to SecureZIP's scalability, meeting the company’s growing data security needs.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP Enterprise Edition

The consulting firm turned to PKZIP for zSeries® Enterprise Edition to compress data before distributing it to the various data marts. The agency’s update application now takes the data written to the tape cartridges and compresses them with PKZIP before transmission. Ultimately, the consulting firm chose PKZIP because of the outstanding results it delivered when used in other projects.

The agency also incorporates critical information from third party providers. An update from a provider frequently includes as many as 160 files compressed and contained in a single ZIP archive each month. This is then written to CD and sent to the consulting firm. There, the ZIP archive is transferred to the mainframe where PKZIP automatically translates the data format from ASCII to EBCDIC during the decompression and extraction process.

“PKZIP compresses the data at least 75% and frequently as high as 90-95%,” according to an Operations Analyst. “Consequently, data mart updates that may have been as large as 80 gigabytes are compressed to as little as 4 gigabytes. We wouldn’t be able to complete transmissions within the operational window without the use of PKZIP. It works with the original ASCII-oriented file names and renames them to a DSN (Data Set Name) appropriate for the mainframe during extraction—it has good flexibility.”

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The IT services company looked into implementing SecureZIP in their environment. After evaluating both SecureZIP and their data transfer process, they decided to purchase SecureZIP for their z/OS mainframe so communications with their retailer partner would be secure whether the data was transferred via FTP or tape.

After implementing SecureZIP, the company was able to secure data transfer via portable media and also met PCI requirements that were being imposed by credit card processing partners of some of their largest clients.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

PKWARE was the only provider that could meet all of the company’s needs, including cross-platform compatibility, easy exchange of secure information with business partners, and the ability to deploy a solution without requiring extensive training of employees or partners. The company also maintained transfer times using data compression and was able to deploy SecureZIP in a couple of hours without a change to operations and without requiring training for employees or business partners.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

When the company initially contacted PKWARE, they were only concerned with launching SecureZIP on their z/OS mainframe. However, after experiencing the scalability of the solution, the company decided to deploy SecureZIP on their i5/OS, UNIX server, and desktops running Windows. By purchasing SecureZIP for several operating platforms, they are able to use the solution as a standard within the company; or, they can also standardize the solution to specifically meet evolving business needs.

SecureZIP met all of the company’s needs, including the ability to encrypt sensitive data using the X.509 standard, allowing for the secure transfer of tapes with business partners. SecureZIP was launched throughout the organization and provided security across multiple operating platforms.

An unexpected added benefit the company received from their purchase of SecureZIP was that it helped differentiate them from their competition. SecureZIP could be extended to their business partners at no cost and still enable the secure exchange of data.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition & PartnerLink

The company realized that SecureZIP Enterprise Edition and PartnerLink would solve their security issues, and therefore purchased the product for their desktops and mainframes. This enabled them to send encrypted data to external customers from either operating platform, ensuring information remained protected at all times. Employees could encrypt data easily and exchange information securely from their desktops throughout the organization. The company brand was protected, as well as all data being sent from their organization to large business partners and internal resources alike.

The Application Integration feature of SecureZIP for z/OS® provided our client the ability to stream data directly into, or out of, a secure ZIP container, improving operating efficiencies within the data center while ensuring data remained protected, without ever staging it to disk. Extensive testing of this feature has shown elapsed processing times reduced by up to 600% and CPU clock times reduced by up to 60%.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition

Our client had a compelling reason to purchase from PKWARE--to solve the immediate problem of compressing huge amounts of data. However, they discovered they could add security capabilities as well by using SecureZIP Enterprise Edition.

SecureZIP puts our client “ahead of the curve” in terms of encryption capabilities. In their current working environment, there are no regulations or official requirements regarding data security, but the company was eager to begin following a best business practice and protect their customer information. SecureZIP now compresses and encrypts data for month-end invoices that contain large amounts of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including customer names, addresses, and phone numbers. The company not only solved the immediate problem, they also maximized ROI while increasing their role as a customer service leader by ensuring that all customer data is being handled as efficiently and securely as possible.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The company was already familiar with PKWARE and was confident in our solutions as a result of our experience and longevity in the marketplace. Although the company’s primary need was digital signature capabilities, they also recognized the benefits of data encryption and the added security it would provide. The company purchased SecureZIP for Windows desktop and i5/OS midrange system.

The company leveraged Verisign as the certificate authority to facilitate digital signing at PKWARE’s recommendation. They also appreciated SecureZIP’s email integration capabilities provided in the desktop environment, and, most importantly, the ability to place many digitally signed files into a single secure container, in both the i5/OS and Windows desktop environments.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The company uses a leading international shipping company to send consumer purchases to the appropriate customer, requiring them to exchange personal customer information with the carrier. The data was sent between UNIX servers.

When the shipping company began using SecureZIP in their environment to secure their data, they requested that their business partner purchase SecureZIP as well so the companies could enable secure data communication.

The Solution - SecureZIP

The company quickly realized the value in securing all sensitive customer data being exchanged with business partners. SecureZIP is also quick to deploy and easy to use, resulting in minimal interruption of current processes. And, since SecureZIP is a cost-effective solution, the decision was an easy one. The two companies are now encrypting the data they exchange, ensuring sensitive customer information is protected throughout the entire exchange process.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP

The company evaluated PKZIP and Power Archiver. They ultimately chose PKZIP due to its low cost, flexibility, and simplicity of implementation. The ability to upgrade to enterprise data security via SecureZIP was a key driver. They also liked the policy manager functionality, which gives them a central tool for managing the solution, including which employees have the ability to encrypt data.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The company’s information services division looked at several encryption solutions, including WinZip® and PGP®. They also researched best practices with Gartner analysts before deciding on SecureZIP. SecureZIP was the only solution that met all three of their primary requirements: 1) it provided industry-standard encryption; 2) it was a public standards-based solution; and 3) it was capable of being deployed across all required platforms (Windows, HP-UX, and IBM® zSeries®). SecureZIP also supported the company’s future aspirations of implementing PKI because it supports certificate-based encryption and digital signing.

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP has enabled the HR department to exchange encrypted email attachments with other departments, remote offices, and third-party providers quickly and easily. By adding SecureZIP to the server environment, PDF reports queried from the SAP database are now encrypted. An added benefit for the company is that SecureZIP also compresses attachments by up to 95 percent, conserving bandwidth and storage space. For special projects, such as mergers and acquisitions, when large volumes of employee data are exchanged, the company is now sending encrypted files, rather than copying the personal information of employees onto a CD to be hand-delivered. The new process is both more efficient and more secure.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP provided the ability to securely transfer files from PCs to UNIX boxes to mainframes. Their goal was to research, implement, and test SecureZIP in their environment in one month. The company chose SecureZIP because of its cross-platform interoperability and because they could initiate it in both automated and interactive environments. The company also selected SecureZIP because it offered the shortest time to implementation and the best system performance. Using SecureZIP, the company is able to provide strong encryption to meet SOX requirements while minimally impacting processing times through the use of data compression. SecureZIP enables them to send 9 DB files compressed from 1GB to 200MB nightly, saving both time and bandwidth.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

The company needed a solution that would facilitate a more efficient backup process and protect confidential data. SecureZIP fit this need perfectly. Using SecureZIP, the company could merge encryption and compression into one process, keeping CPU consumption to a minimum. It enabled them to save iSeries data directly into a Zip archive without creating SAVF files first, allowing them to connect to their development box over the network instead of via a T1 line.

SecureZIP’s ability to combine the compression, encryption, and SAVF file creation steps was vital in solving the company’s backup time crunch. Not only did using SecureZIP ensure their confidential data was protected, the compression feature meant there were smaller files to encrypt, speeding up distribution significantly. The company is now able to transmit files nightly via FTP from the production to development system in only 5.5 hours as opposed to the 10 hours the process previously took.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

SecureZIP allowed the retailer to compress their data while adding security to their existing processes. SecureZIP was also cost effective and could be purchased and implemented to meet their 10-day deployment time frame. Additionally, SecureZIP allowed the retailer to utilize digital certificates and signatures, enhancing and accelerating business growth.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

Despite this strong recommendation, the retailer wanted to compare SecureZIP to McAfee® E-Business Server using OpenPGP encryption. The comparison brought to light some major drawbacks of the PGP-based solution, confirming the consultant’s assessment.

• PGP fails to work across platforms, a major disadvantage given the various systems within the retailer’s processing environment.
• In processing files, a mainframe must be able to recognize file attributes, such as file size and block allocation, as well as provide EBCDIC/ASCII conversion. Although PGP encrypts files, it does not provide file management capabilities.
• While PGP compresses data, its compression format is not based on the .ZIP file format, the de-facto industry standard and one of the most widely used file formats in the world. In addition, PGP only achieves up to 50% compression, compared to PKZIP, which compresses files up to 95%.

These findings were the reasons that prompted the supply chain consultant to term SecureZIP the "slam dunk" solution. "SecureZIP is an elegant solution for a z/OS environment because it encrypts, compresses, and manages many kinds of files - all in a single application and across many platforms. McAfee's PGP product cannot compete with the overall value and ease of PKWARE's application.'

The Solution - SecureZIP

In protecting sensitive data, SecureZIP supports X.509 digital certificates, as well as passphrases. SecureZIP's performance and reputation for helping organizations comply with PCI DSS assures potential users that their data will be protected in transit and in storage. In addition to securing data, SecureZIP effortlessly streamlined operations and increased the retailer's productivity by:

• Working seamlessly across platforms, including mainframes and midrange systems, servers, and desktops. In this case, SecureZIP easily transferred data from the z/OS mainframe to an IBM® AIX Server.
• Compressing, encrypting, and providing file management in a single process, improving efficiency.
• Simplifying operational procedures. SecureZIP supports both digital certificate and passphrase implementations, while providing scalability to fit the organization’s infrastructure and easily incorporating itself into current operational routines.
• Dramatically accelerating processing time. Before purchasing SecureZIP, the retailer did not use a compression product. With SecureZIP, the company was able to reduce communication time between its mainframe and servers by 75%.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP/PartnerLink

Although the retailer investigated other data security solutions, SecureZIP/PartnerLink quickly proved to be the solution to the retailer’s data security concerns—it was easy to use and support, and maintained superior functionality and encryption capabilities. PartnerLink, an extension of SecureZIP, also solved the issue of securely exchanging sensitive data with over 200 business partners.

PartnerLink extends the retailer’s security policies to external partners by complementing existing infrastructures and security environments, making bidirectional exchange of data an easy task. PartnerLink is provided to business partners at no cost.

The Application Integration feature of SecureZIP provided the retailer the ability to stream data directly into, or out of, a secure Zip container, improving operating efficiencies and ensuring data remained protected, without ever staging it to disk. Application Integration ensured that the retailer would no longer have to risk writing data to temporary files for exchange, providing increased compliance with PCI DSS mandates. SecureZIP also dramatically increased operational efficiencies- -testing of SecureZIP has shown elapsed processing times reduced by up to 90% and CPU second utilization reduced by up to 60%.

SecureZIP’s performance and reputation for helping organizations comply with PCI DSS assures potential users that their data will be protected in transit and in storage. In addition to securing data, SecureZIP effortlessly streamlines and increases productivity. SecureZIP also works seamlessly across platforms, including mainframes and midrange systems, servers, and desktops. It also simplifies operations procedures by supporting both PKI and non-PKI implementations, while providing scalability to fit the organization’s infrastructure.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

The retailer had PGP® installed on about 10% of their servers, but had experienced issues associated with cost and licensing complexity. In addition to PGP, they considered a wide variety of security solutions, including MegaCrypt, IBM MQ, SSL, SMIME/SecureContent/Via Seal, and EFS.

The Solution - SecureZIP

The retailer chose SecureZIP, a data-centric solution, because it met all of their requirements. They were also very familiar with RSA and their relationship with PKWARE. The retailer implemented SecureZIP for z/OS, UNIX Server, and desktop. The retailer liked the scalability and flexibility SecureZIP offered their multi-platform enterprise. SecureZIP provided a solution that could incorporate their anticipated implementation of a PKI environment, making SecureZIP’s support for public key encryption extremely valuable. In addition to using SecureZIP for their business data, they recognized that they could use SecureZIP for other data security requirements including securing HR information for HIPAA compliance.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP

Due to the interoperability, flexibility, and multi-platform offerings PKWARE solutions provide, SecureZIP came across as the clear choice for the retailer. SecureZIP offered the interoperability they were looking for, seamlessly integrating with XCEED Zip.

SecureZIP’s ability to use AES or 3DES encryption also contributed to the decision. Currently, the retailer uses passphrase-based encryption; however, they have been looking into using digital certificate-based encryption. They were pleased that SecureZIP granted them a long-term solution, allowing the ability to begin utilizing both options when needed, without having to purchase additional software or alter current applications.

Overall, SecureZIP exceeded the retailer’s expectations, providing them with a data security solution that not only offered the flexibility and interoperability they were looking for, but also supplies options for future data security advancements.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

While searching for the right product to support their upgraded servers and encrypt sensitive data, the retailer considered the WinZip® Command Line, but chose PKWARE solutions because they offered more robust functionality at a better price.

The Solution - SecureZIP and PKZIP

Overall, PKWARE met the retailer’s need for file storage expansion, data compression and encryption, security, and cost-effectiveness. PKWARE solutions also offered the opportunity for future upgrades. Our client was in vendor-consolidation mode and PKWARE’s ability to offer comprehensive solutions on all major platforms provided increased cost savings and convenience.

By selecting SecureZIP, the retailer also satisfied PCI Compliance requirements.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition / PartnerLink

PKWARE engineering and support teams quickly identified SecureZIP Enterprise Edition as the perfect solution. The retailer tested SecureZIP Enterprise Edition and determined the software met and exceeded their requirements.

The Application Integration feature provides the ability for the retailer to stream data directly into, or out of, a secure Zip container, improving operating efficiencies and ensuring data remains protected, without ever staging it to disk. This feature, along with PKWARE’s world-class technical support and rapid deployment, made SecureZIP the only choice for this retailer.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP for i5/OS

Our client found that PKZIP for i5/OS Standard Edition solved the issues they were experiencing with moving large quantities of data. The data center sends information wirelessly to thousands of drivers who each have a handheld device. Due to the wireless transit of information, a lot of data is being sent over a small pipe – ZIP compression was able to solve the problem. Using PKZIP for i5/OS, the data center leverages the software on their AS/400 to compress the routes and stops for the various drivers. The zip files are sent wirelessly to the drivers who receive them on their handheld devices.

When in the field, various representatives can also send back information to the central data center. For example, one of the company’s franchises has over 800 field representatives that use the handheld devices across a three statee region. A representative can gather information at a specific service call location and then send it back to the data center, compressed, where it can be uploaded to the AS/400, decompressed, and logged for future use.

Our client is seeing immediate positive results from implementing PKZIP for i5/OS. The process of sending route information to drivers has been streamlined, eliminating missed calls and allowing for cancellations to reach drivers with enough time to react and reorganize their routes. Ultimately, the use of PKZIP for i5/OS has maximized efficiency by allowing for more stops per day per driver. In addition, increasing the ease and speed with which information can be returned to the central location allows for faster billing, invoicing, and processing; this, combined with a reduction in error, has improved overall business and increased company profits.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

Competitive Landscape

In addition to PKZIP, the company also investigated 7-Zip as a possible solution. 7-Zip was not able to process all of the possible types of compressed files that our client receives and fell short on meeting the other requirements as well.

As an open source community, 7-Zip does not provide customer support. Since accessing data is critical to business, the need for technical/customer support was an obvious benefit to implementing PKZIP. Once again, PKZIP came out on top as a result of the customer service and technical support provided by PKWARE.

The Solution - PKZIP Standard Toolkit

Our client found that they could replace all four of their current products by implementing the PKZIP Standard Toolkit within their application. This solved their immediate need to find a single solution to replace the four currently in use. In addition, PKZIP met the technical requirements outlined at the onset of the project.

The flexibility of the PKZIP solution to fit into the company’s current and future technical requirements was another primary reason the product was selected. Not only would PKZIP meet the “must-have” requirements, it met all of the “nice to have” requirements for future projects.

Company Background

Competitive Landscape

During D3MC’s research process, they investigated both PGP® and WinZip® as potential solutions, but SecureZIP included more beneficial features and was more cost-effective. D3MC also needed a solution that would be configurable within their organization and be implemented quickly to begin handling large amounts of data. In addition, D3MC writes a lot of conversion software that is database driven - SecureZIP allowed them to update their database about the success or failure of the encryption process for each file.

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition

All 150 TB of data was sent to D3MC on tape and moved from tape to disk for conversion. The data was then run through D3MC’s proprietary conversion process utilizing 25 of D3MC’s servers where it was transformed into a proprietary file format. All conversion work was done at D3MC’s secure facility in Houston, Texas and was performed only using D3MC’s hardware, proprietary software, and personnel. Neither the customer’s source nor target archive applications were required and the entire conversion process was performed using D3MC’s off-line process saving the customer money and time.

SecureZIP Enterprise Edition easily and efficiently met all of D3MC’s needs. D3MC was able to create a fully audited encryption solution utilizing SQL Server’s Integration Services. This allowed D3MC to have a completely audited conversion process. This solution queries the database, finds the files to be encrypted on disk and then encrypts them using SecureZIP. Encryption is performed on a file by file basis with each file about a half Gigabyte in size. In all, SecureZIP encrypted over 50 TB of information.

While SecureZIP encrypts massive amounts of information for D3MC, it also allows a database driven process to handle the encryption in order to monitor the encryption success and throughput rate. Using just 2 single Quad-Core servers to perform the file encryption using SecureZIP, D3MC was able to encrypt over 50 TB of data in just 2 weeks. D3MC is looking to expand their use of SecureZIP with additional clients and projects in the future.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - SecureZIP Enterprise Edition for Windows desktop

SecureZIP offers our client strong data file encryption while meeting FIPS compliance requirements established by their business partner. This meets their initial goal of a security solution that allows them to begin exchanging documents electronically, saving both time and money throughout the organization.

Contingency key functionality ensures that data can be accessed at any time, even if a passphrase used for encryption is lost or stolen. The contractor can recover any data encrypted using SecureZIP, which is especially important in the instance of an agency audit.

Policy manager, another capability of SecureZIP, grants the contractor the ability to set security protocols so they automatically become part of the workflow. In some cases, users are unaware that files are being secured because SecureZIP works “in the background,” encrypting and decrypting files without requiring any user interaction. Using policy manager, administrators can centrally control encryption standards, configuring and securing protocols. Every time an employee or affiliate creates a SecureZIP file, the user is locked into encrypting the file according to the agency’s settings.

SecureZIP also provides a solution that is easy to use and deploy within the current work environment. Our client was pleased with how easily SecureZIP integrated with their Microsoft Outlook® email environment and that the solution was interoperable across all computing platforms within their organization.

Company Background

Challenges and Requirements

The Solution - PKZIP for i5/OS

Our client found that PKZIP for i5/OS Standard Edition solved the issues they were experiencing with moving large quantities of data. The data center sends information wirelessly to thousands of drivers who each have a handheld device. Due to the wireless transit of information, a lot of data is being sent over a small pipe – ZIP compression was able to solve the problem. Using PKZIP for i5/OS, the data center leverages the software on their AS/400 to compress the routes and stops for the various drivers. The zip files are sent wirelessly to the drivers who receive them on their handheld devices.

When in the field, various representatives can also send back information to the central data center. For example, one of the company’s franchises has over 800 field representatives that use the handheld devices across a three statee region. A representative can gather information at a specific service call location and then send it back to the data center, compressed, where it can be uploaded to the AS/400, decompressed, and logged for future use.

Our client is seeing immediate positive results from implementing PKZIP for i5/OS. The process of sending route information to drivers has been streamlined, eliminating missed calls and allowing for cancellations to reach drivers with enough time to react and reorganize their routes. Ultimately, the use of PKZIP for i5/OS has maximized efficiency by allowing for more stops per day per driver. In addition, increasing the ease and speed with which information can be returned to the central location allows for faster billing, invoicing, and processing; this, combined with a reduction in error, has improved overall business and increased company profits.